> Where is this group?
One such group is iDNS (http://www.idns.org ?)
They have that odd UTF-5 proposal to be compatible with existing software.
Supposedly IETF has a working group, but I know nothing about it. I do know
that there was a recent expansion of legal domain names to 63 bytes (which
is almost 3x the old limit... or about what one would expect to accommodate
the BMP in UTF-8........)
Addison
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: 8-bit text which is supposed to be UTF-8 but isn't
> Dan scripsit:
>
> > ISO 10646 is 31 bits. All possible values should be allowed.
> > I do not know why Unicode have decided to grow their bits to
> > more than 16 bits, but not to all 31 bits of ISO 10646.
>
> JTC1/SC2/WG2 have declared that they will not go past 0010FFFF,
> except for the (de facto deprecated) private-use areas
> at 00E00000-00FFFFFF and at 60000000-7FFFFFFF.
>
> > But that is no reason to not allow full 31 bits in UTF-8 encoded
> > text.
>
> It is, indeed, the reason.
>
> > You should also specify that Unicode technical report #15 normalisation
> > form C should be used. This will simplify much encoding/decoding
> > and help searching and case insensitivity comparisons.
>
> I would even go further, to require Form KC (no compatibility characters)
> as well, at least in headers if not in body text.
>
> > And best would be if this was valid everywhere, both in the protocol
> > headers and the body text. The current MIME-encodings in headers
> > are terrible.
>
> Agreed. I believe the current draft drops or deprecates those.
> (This is news, not mail, remember.)
>
> > No, case insensitivity should be available on all letters. It is
> > very important for many people. For a protocol
> > to work well it should be implemented using a well defined way like
> > section 2.3 in Unicode technical report #21.
>
> But why do case folding at all? Simply forbid the use of uppercase
> characters.
>
> > As there is a group working on getting international characters into
> > DNS, you may wait a little and see the results from them. It may
> > affect the Usenet News protocol.
>
> Where is this group?
>
> --
> John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
> I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
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